By HMS
Date: 6 May 2000
Mirror Image
The mirror is for me a glass unbacked
Revealing how I feel, not what I see.
At times the image wavers: shadowed, cracked;
At times the lines are clear and true and me.
Nearsighted, I can never hope to know
How others view this double face of mine.
And though I should not care for outward show,
With you, I need to know. What do you find?
Gently you assure me of your pleasure,
And wanting to believe, I try, and yet
Your human eyes make inexact a measure;
My fickle mirror's too hard to forget.
This double image haunts me: let it pass.
Time silvers, love makes true, the unbacked glass.
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